Halfway through the term of the European Parliament, not only is the new leadership formed, but some changes also appear in almost all of the structures of the Parliament, particularly Committees, Delegations and working groups. (Read more...)

Last Wednesday in Strasbourg MEP Leonidas Donskis, ALDE coordinator for the Subcommittee on Human Rights, met with leader of the unregistered opposition party of Kazakhstan "National Front" Vladimir Kozlov and party member, blogger Muratbek Tungishbayev. (Read more...)

The first plenary session of 2012, which took place this week in Strasbourg, was unusual as most of its agenda consisted of elections of a new EP leadership - the new European Parliament President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors. Under Parliament`s Rules of Procedure elections are held in the mid-term, namely after two and a half years. (Read more...)

During the first four months of his third year at the European Parliament MEP Leonidas Donskis expressed his approval to written declarations in the areas of humanitarian assistance, health, science and education, policies regarding disabled people, social inclusion. Meanwhile, MEP V. Tomaševski registered a written declaration closely related to the written declaration on the safety nuclear power plants in the EU neighbourhood, which was submitted by L. Donskis, R. Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Z. Balčytis and J. Paleckis earlier. (Read more...)

MEP Leonidas Donskis, together with his colleagues addressed President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in an open letter expressing their concern about the events taking place in Western Kazakhstan, where police were using weapons against the protesting employees of oil companies, killing around 70 people. (Read more...)

Problems of post-Soviet countries, including the Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and potential EU assistance to them are among the main priorities of MEP Leonidas Donskis in the European Parliament. (Read more...)